Systems Engineer

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related STEM field.
• Experience in requirements development, decomposition, management, and traceability.
• Understanding of the systems engineering lifecycle, including requirements definition, design, integration, verification, and validation.
• Experience with requirements tools such as DOORS, DOORS Next, or equivalent.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance, thus US Citizenship is required.

As we enter a new era of Strategic Weapon Systems, Lockheed Martin is a pioneer, partner, innovator and builder. Our amazing men and women are on a mission to make a difference in the world and every single day we use our unique skills, talents and experiences to design and build solutions to some of the world’s hardest engineering problems. Do you want to be part of a culture that inspires employees to envision the impossible, perform with excellence and build incredible products?

We provide the resources, inspiration and focus—if you have the passion and courage to dream big, then we want to build a better tomorrow with you.

Bring your experience and passion for engineering to Lockheed Martin, and build the systems which support our nation's defense systems.

Lockheed Martin Space is seeking a Requirements & Verification Systems Engineer to develop, decompose, trace, verify, and validate system and subsystem requirements for high-impact national security programs. In this role, you will work across engineering disciplines to ensure proper requirement allocation, manage verification artifacts, and maintain traceability throughout the systems engineering lifecycle.

• Apply systems engineering principles across the full system development lifecycle, from concept definition through design, integration, verification, validation, and operations.
• Translate customer, mission, and stakeholder needs into clear, traceable technical requirements and system architectures.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary engineering teams (software, hardware, manufacturing, test, quality, operations) to ensure system designs meet technical, cost, schedule, and risk objectives.
• Support development and maintenance of system architectures, interface definitions, and technical baselines.
• Perform and document system trade studies, analyses, and technical evaluations to support design decisions.
• Ensure alignment between requirements, design implementation, verification methods, and delivered products.
• Identify, assess, and help mitigate technical risks, issues, and dependencies throughout program execution.
• Participate in and support technical reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, etc.).
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to engineering teams, program leadership, and customers.
• Maintain accurate and compliant technical documentation and configuration-controlled artifacts.

• Experience creating verification plans, test matrices, and compliance documentation.
• Familiarity with interface definition, CONOPS development, and architecture alignment.
• Experience analyzing requirements for completeness, clarity, feasibility, and risk.
• Understanding of space or defense system requirements—hardware, software, or mission systems.
• Experience supporting technical reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR).
• Strong communication, organizational, and data management skills.

• Candidates may be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
• Clearance Required:
  
  Active Top Secret (TS/SCI preferred)

• Littleton, CO
• King of Prussia, PA
• Sunnyvale, CA

Onsite Full-time:
The work associated with this position will be performed onsite at a designated Lockheed Martin facility.